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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra presents more than 100 concerts a year at Konserthuset Stockholm. Furthermore, the orchestra tours regularly in Europe and the rest of the world, and its recordings have been celebrated internationally.

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

Wednesday 21 March 2018 18.00

Price:

100-315 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Bartók’s beloved Hungary had become an ally of Nazi Germany, and as an antifascist, Bartók saw no other way out than to emigrate to the US. He had trouble acclimating to his new home country, and he began having symptoms of what would eventually be diagnosed as leukemia. In the midst of this darkness, a prestigious commission came up in 1943: conductor Serge Koussevitzky wanted an orchestral work for his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps the distance from his native country gave the influence of folk music such a central role in the Concerto for Orchestra?

French-born Betsy Jolas’ (b. 1926) best advice to her students is to be inspired by art and literature, and not to worry so much about labelling their music. She composed A Little Summer Suite as a commission for the Berlin Philharmonic, and the piece premiered a few months before her 90th birthday.

Alain Altinoglu is chief conductor of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. He frequently guest-conducts ensembles including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and at the Metropolitan in New York and festivals in Bayreuth and Salzburg.

Participants

Wednesday 21 March 2018 18.00

Price:

100-315 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Thursday 22 March 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

With a focus on France, in this programme the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes conductor Alain Altinoglu and violinist Renaud Capuçon; together, they will perform music by Betsy Jolas (b. 1926) and Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955).

A Little Summer Suite was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, and the piece premiered a few months before Jolas’ 90th birthday in 2016. The piece is thought to be a musical stroll with no predetermined destination, in which one might end up anywhere at all.

Pascal Dusapin’s violin concerto Aufgang is from 2011 and is filled with ingenuity and sonorous surprises, with the soloist and orchestra closely mirroring one another. The music is composed specifically for French star soloist Renaud Capuçon.

Alain Altinoglu is chief conductor of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and regularly guest-conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and festivals in Bayreuth and Salzburg.

The concert concludes with Bartók’s hit piece, Concerto for Orchestra. Bartók’s beloved Hungary had become an ally of Nazi Germany, and as an antifascist, Bartók saw no other way out than to emigrate to the US.

He had trouble acclimating to his new home country, and he began having symptoms of what would eventually be diagnosed as leukemia. In the midst of this darkness, a prestigious commission came up in 1943: conductor Serge Koussevitzky wanted an orchestral work for his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps the distance from his native country gave the influence of folk music such a central role in the Concerto for Orchestra?

Participants

Thursday 22 March 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Wednesday 28 March 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

At just over 20 years old, Finnish Klaus Mäkelä has already launched a luminous career, and has worked with many of the major orchestras in Finland and the Nordic and Baltic countries. He will now come to Konserthuset to conduct the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with a programme featuring Joseph Haydn.

Composed in 2005 as a commission for the New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Britta Byström’s Farewell Variations were originally intended to interact with Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.

Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major premiered in 1800 and was composed for Anton Weidinger and his trumpet, which was considered modern at the time. The evening’s soloist, Tine Thing Helseth, is one of the world’s preeminent trumpet players, a trailblazer admired for her soulful and lyrical playing.

Sergei Prokofiev’s composition teacher drilled into him to compose in the style of Haydn, and his Symphony No. 1 in D Major is a loving pastiche of the older master. Prokofiev called the symphony “the classic”, and indeed, the form is classic, but it is peppered with his singular voice.

The concert concludes with Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn. Whether the famous theme was in fact composed by Haydn is a subject of debate among music scholars, but there is no doubt that Brahms added his own personal touch, from the first variation to the eighth and last.

Participants

Wednesday 28 March 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Busoni's grandiose piano Concerto

Thursday 5 April 2018 18.00

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto in C Major from 1904 is a truly majestic piece of music – simultaneously a demanding solo concerto and a symphony. The men’s chorus (!) featured in the final movement also makes the piece incredibly unusual, both for the repertoire and in its construction. It is a unique piece that one may only ever get one chance to hear performed live.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Sakari Oramo will be accompanied on stage by American pianist Garrick Ohlsson for the piece’s five movements. In his repertoire of over 80 concertos, Ohlsson has explored a wide range of piano literature, from Mozart to newly composed pieces.

With Symphony No. 38 in D Major, Mozart gazed into the future and challenged orchestral musicians with more technically demanding sections than in earlier symphonies. In the introductory movement, one can sense the musical fragments familiar from Don Giovanni, the opera that Mozart would soon compose.

Thursday 5 April 2018 18.00

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Other occasions

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Busoni's grandiose piano Concerto

Saturday 7 April 2018 15.00

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto in C Major from 1904 is a truly majestic piece of music – simultaneously a demanding solo concerto and a symphony. The men’s chorus (!) featured in the final movement also makes the piece incredibly unusual, both for the repertoire and in its construction. It is a unique piece that one may only ever get one chance to hear performed live.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Sakari Oramo will be accompanied on stage by American pianist Garrick Ohlsson for the piece’s five movements. In his repertoire of over 80 concertos, Ohlsson has explored a wide range of piano literature, from Mozart to newly composed pieces.

With Symphony No. 38 in D Major, Mozart gazed into the future and challenged orchestral musicians with more technically demanding sections than in earlier symphonies. In the introductory movement, one can sense the musical fragments familiar from Don Giovanni, the opera that Mozart would soon compose.

Saturday 7 April 2018 15.00

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Other occasions

Price:

200-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Thursday 12 April 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Composer Weekend 2018 is dedicated to Andrea Tarrodi, whose music will “take your breath away”, as Dagens Nyheter wrote. Qualities often mentioned include her music’s colourful richness and peculiar play of light. She has garnered significant attention in recent years, and her work has been performed several times before at Konserthuset.

The festival opening includes no less than two premiere performances: Wildwoods for Orchestra, and the piano concerto Stellar Clouds. The soloist will be Swedish pianist Peter Friis Johansson, who has excelled in multiple international competitions.

Camelopardalis is the Latin name for the giraffe constellation. In the middle of Andrea Tarrodi’s piece, which was composed for South Africa’s Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the giraffe’s theme is presented by the bassoon. In addition, Liguria will take us out into the world, on a journey through five little fishing villages clinging to the cliffs of Italy’s northwestern coast.

With his symphonic suite named after spring, Claude Debussy wanted to express the slow and arduous process that everything born must go through, blossoming and joie de vivre.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by one of today’s most acclaimed young conductors: Joana Carneiro. Praised for her vibrant interpretations, she is chief conductor of the Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa, music director of the Berkeley Symphony and guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Carneiro has led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on a few previous occasions since her debut in 2014.

Participants

Thursday 12 April 2018 19.00

Price:

125-415 SEK

50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.

The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.

A short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.

Konserthuset Stockholm

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Opening hours: Monday–Friday 11–18.Saturday 11–15. On concert days at least two hours before the concert, but no earlier than 11.